The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 3

The White Cat looked serious, and said she must think what was to be done, but that, luckily, there were some cats in the castle who could spin very well, and if anybody could manage it they could, and she would set them the task herself.

Who acts: White Cat, Cat, that, castle, anybody · What happens: look, say, think, do, be, spin · To what, where: castle, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Cat, Cat, that, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
2	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Cat	amod
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 think	aux
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 done	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux:pass
14	to	to	PART	_	16 done	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	aux:pass
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 think	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 that	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 that	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 castle	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 luckily	punct
21	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	24 were	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 luckily	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 were	expl
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 castle	cop
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 cats	det
26	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 were	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 castle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 castle	det
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	parataxis
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 spin	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 spin	aux
32	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 castle	acl:relcl
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 well	advmod
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 spin	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 manage	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 manage	cc
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 manage	mark
38	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 manage	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 manage	aux
40	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 spin	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 manage	obj
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 could	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 manage	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 set	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 set	cc
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 set	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 set	aux
48	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 spin	conj
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 set	obj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 task	det
51	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 set	obj
52	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 set	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the White Cat			serious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the White Cat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	must	Cat				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	past · passive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
5	is	past	that		the castle		tree rules
6	spin	could	the castle			well property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	manage a condition, not said to happen	could	anybody	castle			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	set	would	Cat	them = they		Cat obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme task=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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